David Brooks & Kate Bowler: Never, Ever Enough

Everything Happens with Kate Bowler

Kate Bowler

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 5.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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How do we reach for wisdom instead of self-help solutions? Much to their embarrassment, New York Times columnist David Brooks and Kate Bowler often find their books in the “Self-Help section.” David sat down with Kate at the historic Sixth & I Synagogue in Washington, D.C. to talk about her book, No Cure For Being Human, and the twisty-turny journey of living without easy answers. In this live, funny and poignant conversation, David and Kate discuss: If a life is ever complete How to define hope if it isn’t just a type of optimism The limits of stoicism What I wish healthcare professionals would do instead And you cannot miss David’s unplanned pun at the beginning. It was so bad and so funny and nothing can be better. *** Find me on Instagram or Facebook or Twitter. Be sure to subscribe to my weekly email for bits of wisdom, prayers, free downloads, and more. No Cure for Being Human (And Other Truths I Need to Hear) is now available wherever books are sold. Order your copy, today. Need a little something to walk with you toward Christmas? Receive our FREE Advent Devotional, here. Introducing, GOOD ENOUGH: 40ish Devotions for a Life of Imperfection. Pre-order your copy, here. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Oh, hello there, my dear.
0:03.6	Before we begin today's conversation, I just wanted to remind you that Advent is here.
0:08.1	Yes, spoiler alert.
0:09.6	Jesus will be born again this year, whether we are ready or not.
0:13.6	Which is both hopeful and probably a little bit overwhelming.
0:17.2	If you are like me, still scrambling to get the tree up or find a gift or figure out how
0:22.2	to coexist with people that we love during Christmas dinner this year.
0:27.4	So if you are looking for a way to make this season a little more, set apart, give yourself
0:34.0	a little more permission to have a Merry-ish Christmas.
0:38.4	We at the Everything Happens project put together a free Advent devotional just for you.
0:44.0	It is this gorgeous, massive, like, set of short readings and blessings and reflections
0:50.1	on Christmas seeds and little traditions that you can begin any day like.
0:56.0	To download it for free, at katebola.com slash advent.
1:03.8	How do we reach for wisdom instead of self-help solutions?
1:08.0	I guess that's been the question we've been circling around during this whole season
1:11.9	of the podcast.
1:14.0	When quick formulas are so much easier to hang on our refrigerators and repeat to ourselves
1:19.6	in downward-facing dog, how do we find the deeper, richer, more hopeful truths that can
1:27.0	steady us in this life of uncertainty?
1:31.4	Much to my embarrassment and to say, my books keep getting categorized as self-help literature.
1:38.1	I know, I know.
1:40.0	I will just trojan horse the crap out of this.
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